Kingslea One Loft Race

[Ian McKay]

Kingslea One Loft Race with a difference, the idea was given to me by a member who asked me to run a one loft race, which was immediately refused, but after some discussion with other fanciers this is what we put together.

 

First we looked at the problems:

Disease and sick birds

Shipping costs and reliability

Getting all birds in on time

Numbers and handling them

Breaking the birds to a new loft

Are there to many one loft races

Most are run to make a profit to the organisers

 

We decided to eliminate all the above by:

 

Breeding our own

Only have 50 birds. Only 40 in the race.9 spare 1 Raffle bird

All owned by me therefore no complication with licences

No cost involved as I would have this amount of young birds anyway

I will be training the birds as I would with my young birds

No cost for feeding them I pay for the food as I would with my young birds

 

Prize money 40 x £50 = £2000

 

When the idea was set out to local pigeon fanciers we received sponsorship this means we will pay out £2100 per syndicate of 40 participants

 

We have 7 races with the Federation /club

We will pay £50 for the first bird home in each race

7 x £50 = £350

Last race 196 mls race no 8

1st Prize £1000

2nd Prize £500

3rd Prize £250

Total prize money £2100 per syndicate of 40

 

This is an idea every Federation / club can copy this means the money is being raised by participants and won by participants.

The money is paid up front so is guaranteed

 

The Raffle bird will pay all hidden cost i.e. printing, postage, and any other items required. The raffle bird will have a paid entry into the race for the winner.

 

I will publish photographs later of some of the birds, all are on darkness system.

 

Ian McKay